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The hedge fund manager, outlining on Thursday his strategy for encouraging Apple to return some cash to shareholders, said the class of perpetual perfered shares could produce $61 a share in additional benefits for investors.
The perpetual preferred shares that Berkshire Hathaway bought, when Goldman was scrambling to prop up its share value, pay a sweet 10% dividend, and the Omaha company also gets dibs on $5 billion of common shares at $115 each if it chooses.
Under the terms of the deal, Mr. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway will receive 50,000 perpetual preferred shares.
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Berkshire Hathaway received perpetual preferred shares in Goldman, which pay a 10percentt annual dividend, or $500 million a year.
He also wanted a perpetual loan-sharing arrangement between MOCA's collection and his, but, when he encountered resistance from museum officials, he withdrew the proposal.
Those two deals closely resemble his new investment in Bank of America; he bought $5 billion worth of perpetual preferred shares in Goldman and $3 billion in G.E.
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It's a cutesy name for the class of perpetual preferred shares that Mr. Einhorn has called on the technology giant to roll out as a way to deliver more cash to its shareholders.
Instead of debt it issues perpetual preferred shares.
